hello,

if you find a VT320 or 420 you can plug the mmj right into the terminal. 
for a few years DEC used those rather obnoxious mmj connectors for all 
their serial stuff.. even the early alpha systems had them. 
if you use a PeeCee running something like kermit (which runs on 
_everything_, i dont use any peecee stuff but i run kermit on many unixen 
for all mys erial needs, and back in the 80s in my bbs days, kermit in 
DOS was the way to go) then youll have to cook up an adapter. dongles to 
convert from mmj to db25 were fairly common, even from third party
vendors. I have several of them in service here, for example. 
ifyou dont find them, i'd be reluctant to cut up the deconnect cables 
since they are pretty rare now. most digital telephone stuff like youd 
find in a business with a pbx uses RJ12, and a quick snip with a clipper 
can take off the offending centered locking tab and allow the rj12's use 
on the vax.. it wont stay locked in if you disturb the cable, but a strip 
of tape can hold it in tight. 

isildur

On Sun, 28 Jul 2002, Charlie Allom wrote:

> On Sat, Jul 27, 2002 at 10:18:25PM -0400, Lord Isildur wrote:
> > 
> > hello,
> > 
> > congrats on some nice VAXen! the VLC has the distinction of being the
> > smallest general production VAX made :-) 
> 
> Wew!
> 
> > you can indeed do a serial console. however, not on the DB25 port, but on 
> > the MMJ port. It looks like an RJ12 except that the locking tab is offset 
> 
> OK I have 2 of these offset MMJ cables to play with (labeled
> DECconnect Office Cable) - I suppose I will look for an adapter or
> maybe consider stripping on of these apparently rare cables. Do
> terms run straight from these rj12's? I am too young to remember ;)
> 
> I'll keep an eye on ebay.com.au
> 
>   C.
> -- 
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